NumLock and X Problems

It seems that Victor is using an X button to start up PPP. And the
button (and lots of other things) don't work when the numlock key is
on. That's because somewhere along the line (X11R6 I think), the
handling of numlock changed from a server-handled thing to acting as a
modifier.

Many programs which don't handle this new modifier will fail to
display menus, let buttons work, etc, when numlock is on. Certain key
bindings won't work. The solution is to turn off numlock. If that
doesn't work, it's a different problem.

Alan Shutko

I'll let this speak for itself. Maybe the new
XFree86 3.3.3 fixes this.